Bulbophyllum hovarum Schlechter 1924 SECTION Ploiarium Schlechter 1925

TYPE Drawing by © Schlechter and The Swiss Orchid Foundation at the Jany Renz Herbaria Website

Full Shade cool Fall

Common Name or Meaning The ? Bulbophyllum

Flower Size .2" [5 mm] long

Found in Madagascar in lichen rich forests at elevations of 1000 to 2000 meters as a mini-miniature to miniature sized, cool growing epiphyte with 1.2 to 1.6" [3 to 4 cm] between each cylindrical-conical pseudobulb carrying 2, apical, coriaceous, narrowly elliptic, attenuate at both ends, petiolate base leaves that blooms in the fall on an erect, peduncle thin, to 4" [10 cm] long, rachis incurved, thick densely many flowered, cylindrical inflorescence.

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Flora of Madagascar Perrier 1939/81; Orchids of Madagascar Hermans, Du Puy, Cribb & Bosser 2007; Field Guide to the Orchids of Madagascar Cribb & Herman 2009;

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